The question isn’t about whether we can speculate our way to the chequered flag (because the odds are many millions to one against).

The question isn’t even whether we can circumstantially evidence our way to the chequered flag, because we’re all talking pretty good stories now – prospectors, interstate car thieves, nitkeepers. Perhaps they’re all the same story.

The only genuine question is whether we can hard evidence our way to the finishing line. And that has always been the hardest game in town, and the only game that I’ve wanted to play.

I believe that were we to find out more about the baccarat angle, there is hard evidence there to be had. Who were those two prominent players? And who was the journalist who reported the story?